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TUE. LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPRRS, JUNR 5, 1826. [Pus: Tisik,s.] The Irish Catholics, through their leaders, have often so behaVed, as to discourage or distrust a large proportion of the friends:who were pledged in support' of their emancipation ; and in the same degree to animate their numerous enemies with the hope of extinguishing a just cause, or of retarding inde finitely any measures by which it might be assisted. But it is not wise to look at emancipation as a personal favour, to be granted or withheld as one clasi, or even a generation of men, much less as a few individuals out of millions, may conductl themselves at certain periods. National measures: must be decided , on ground s th a t ar e genera l and enduring. Phut Government would at once degenerate into a faction, which suffered itself to be swayed out of a Oven course of policy, by each or any , of the minor factions which 'might grow Hite, ephemeral importance under it, or which deemed worthy of listing resentment the freaks of levity, intemperance, or virulence, which wounded vanity or mortified ambition may suggest to the passing demagogue of the hour. But, whatever are, or ought to be, the views of a Government in its deliberate policy, violence always infects those who form no part of the Government, whether individuals or communities, oti every side of great public (itiestions. The State may act upon fixed prin ciples—the nation almost invariably on it feelings.— The Catholic Question is that, unfortunately, on which the mind of Englishmen has for two years past been most susceptible of strong excitement. We say unfortunately, because so much evil has ever been occasioned, by quarrels of which religious difference forined an essential part ; and because, so serious are the accidental difficulties which beset the present mat , ter in dispute, we can scarcely venture to anticipate . that it wilt not be of long duration. Very worthy and respectable men have addressed the country on this great subject of universal interest, and are struggling hard in all 9 . l..!Fters to extend their own opinion s o f W its merits. hatever we are justified in imputing to Irish politicians, as time real character of the motives which have usually stimulated them to oppose the emancipation ofthe Catholics, we are thoroughly satisfied that where such hostility to the cause exists among the educated portion: of English society, it is a strictly honest and conscientious opposition—built, indeed, as we sire bound by our own convictions to believe, upon prejudice not thorou g hly s ift e d, upon history Unskil fully resorted to, and a gradual and general change of seasons disregarded—but still a reluctance to remodify the constitution, closely allied with sound attachment to the principles of civil and. religious liberty, and with salutary recollections of the dangers which those paris mount blessings have in former times escaped. In this spirit we have looked over a pamphlet pub lished by Sergeant Cross, entitled, " Papal Supre " wary, and manifestly desined to produM an effect unfri e ndly t o th e cause o f our Catholic fellow subjects on the, electors of England now about to choose their representatives. This pamphlet is written with : clearness, ;111(1 the author states his argument, such as it is, (and if no better argument be fortheorn big, the fault is in the subject, not in him), with suf ficient fairness and cogency. lie traces the history of the Pspal usurpation, and assigns its limits, or rather, indeed, endeavours to prove that it has none, tit least that there are none to its encroachments, where an oppor tunity oilers for extending them, This is sane by treat ing of the infl uence exhibited of the See of Rome at dif ferent periods, as before the Reformation, during that great change, and since; the _attempts for its restora tion, in the time of Philip and Mary ; in that of James ; with time present condition of the Papal power in frplaiul.' The various questions arising out of the several branches of the subject are not new ; in our ,041,gineni, we have a right to say that they have been over and over settled, so far as argument could quiet then), but in a sense directly opposite to that adopted by Sergeant Cross. There appears to us, in tact, nothing new with respect either to the matter of this gentleman's work or to the arrangement of it. Both, however, aswelins the station, the talents, and inten tions of the . .. writer, entitle him to be considered with respeet. If the Popish prieStbood be ambitious, and orasying, and dangerous, our short answer to all these t e'roporltions is, deprive them of the laity for instru mento, lq giving the latter a stake and interest in the monarchy too 'chop to be tampered with by the priest hood. Between exterminating the Catholics, which Cromwell fitiled of afrecti»g—unhappily, perhaps, for the present generation—and making them our friends, there is no sane alternative. [MORNING eIIItONICIA.] During the struggles between England and Holland in tbe reign of Charles the Second, the more saga cious of th e Dutch Politicians, when they contrasted the cheapness ofliving in England with the dearness of the means of subsistence in their own country, from the weight of taxation, predicted that their rival, then posses bed of 10,0 wealth, fewer ships, &o. than themselves, could nut fail to outstrip them in a abort time, from the in fluence of the favourable circumstances to which we have alluded. 0. hi sonic things (says a Dutch writer of that day) we may lssove ~he advantage, A 4 in the capital wherewith trade is driven, the ciebex :if our merchants, number of shipping, coping by Le t paii of A,largite, &c., but in others England; for they have cloths s for the heck, and meat for the belly, better cheap for the poor lol l;he customs of England anti the number of her ships kept regularly increasing; while Holland, on the eontrary, remained stationary, if she did not decline, England, which then was so cheap a country com pared with the Continent, is now, front the pressure of taxation, the dearest in the world. The Dutch foresaw that the cheapness of living in England would draw much of their capital to that country. Now we impose heavy duties on the importation of eve n the agricultural produce of Holland. With out the excuse of the Dutch, who were obliged to tarry on protracted wars for the very existence of their i n d opm d ei , ce , we have rushed into one expensiv o war after another, wasting the resources of the coun try, and mortgaging the industry of u n b orn genera tions. We are now plying for the egregious frilly of , ffir st a t e s men , We are surrounded by rivals, who proceed lightly in the career of industry, white we are , sinking to thew earth with our load. Our capital. which, from the excessive price of food here, can only be employed at a low rate of profit, naturally betakes itself to countries less burdened ; and thus our foreign trade is becoming every day more and more eiekly.— In distant markets, we find every where rivals, who have been nourished bv British capital; and even the bulwark of die nation—the navy, ire threatened by the natural tendency to recur to a shipping, which can be tio - much more cheaply built, repaired, manned, and provisioned, than our own. Whichever way we turn outsetves, we find ourselves in the midst of difficulties from the effects of the expensive wars so long waged by the profligate Government of this country. We trust the cause of the difficulties and distress of the nation will be kept in mind at this period. Those men who prate to the people about Popery and so forth, are deserving of contempt as imbeciles, or of hatred as hypocrites. The grand question is, the ap plication of the resources of the nation. Honest and de termined men are wanted to make a stand against the profligacy which threatens us with such dreadful con sequences. The energies of patriots should be con centrated, and not wasted on too many objects.— Much may be done by a few men in Parliament, ever mindful of their duty, and ready to attack, at all times, the citadel of corruption. The example of Mr. Hume will not, we hope, be lost on the country. '[here is no instance in the history of the world of a surrender of political power by a body, except under compulsion ; and we, therefore, are fitr from sanguine with respect to the possibility of a Parliamentary Re form. We fear there are too many of our Statesmen, who advocate it on the principle of Mr. Fox, that "it was a fit thing to be made use of in argument in the House of Commons, but not to be carried into execution." We firmly believe that not a few of those who vote in favour of reform, as a means of ingratiat ing themselves with the electors of popular places, would not easily forgive themselves, were that object to be carried. As it is a hopeless object, in the pre sent circumstances of the country, we consider the question as in some sort a secondary one. If it be wished merely to make speeches, Parliamentary Re• form is, indeed, an admirable subject. But for re sults none can here be hoped for. Our readers may be assured that the work for the next Parliament will not be light. The occasion demands active and clear headed men, able and willing to fight the good fight against selfish monopolists and extravagant consumers of the resources of the nation. [NEW TIMES.] - Parliament is no more ; the voice of the Proclama tion is gone forth, and the pomp and circumstance of M.P. has fleeted before it, leaving not a wreck behind. Agreeably to the allowable bull of the worthy Secre tary of the Post-dice, franks are now to be charged with postage. The glorious seven years jubilee is come back, bringing bribes to some, and banqueting to all. The smirched artificer shakes hand with my Lord, and the Squire respectfully listens to Tom Butcher's tale, instead of regaling - him with his own. Feseennine verses, that have slumbered in peace and quietness for a lustrum and a half," are now brought forth 4t new-hatched to the bickering time"—old jokes are furbished up anew—scandals that have died, and been buried, are exhumed, and walk abroad again as vivacious as ever. Yet out of all these seeming evils there is good to be educed. In these periodical jumblings of the great and the small, both parties are gainers —the haughtiness of the aristocracy is abated —the honest independence of the lowly is exalted— both are made to feel the value of each other's assist mice, and thus the bands which unite the rich and the poor are strengthened, which, for the want of some such an arrangement, by which, their mutual depend ence is shown, might be altogether dissolved. We pretend to no second sight, and therefore it may be dangerous to attempt the adventurous task of prophe eying what may be the issue of the present appeal to the people of England, to speak of the election accord ing to established phraseology. When old Napier, of Nferehiston, prognosticated the end o f th e wor ld, h e unluckily fixed on so near a day, that lie out-lived his last day some dozen of years. But if such a mis hap is to be apprehended, when speaking of an event necessarily sonic few years removed, the danger is wonderfully increased, when five or six little weeks must confirm or confute our predictions. With this risk in view, however, we venture to express our belief, that the component parts of the next will be very. much the same as those of the last Parliament, notwithstand ing of the notes of preparation in more than one quarter. Three questions, indeed, excepted—the Catholics— the ,Corn Laws, and the Colonists—what is there but mere family pride, or personal pique, to create contention ? And of these three the last only is that which seems to be much talked about, except in the dear country where they talk much about every thing. In regard to the Corn Laws, the question is no longer one of principle, but of details. And since all influential men seem now disposed to discuss not only these, but all measures whatever, in the spirit of soberness, we cannot, on account of the differences of opinion, in respect to them, look for any very violent contest. As to any accession to the ranks of the Op position, we think that most unlikely ; at the same time there will not probably be much sensible diminu tion. The band is, indeed, now so completely skele tonised, that, in order to reduce it further, we must crumble it in pieces. We shall have Brougham again, of course, for Wi»chelsea--Westmoreland is utterly out of the question ; and we rather think we shall have the learned rector also. Cobbett has very slender prospects—Hunt none. We should not pro phecy so much for Waithman, if his subscription were as many thousands as it is hundreds, but no quantity of brass will, in such a struggle, make amends fur a deficiency of copper. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DIARY, WZDNZSTJAY, JU 7 Ilia risen, Flol-tnarltet, at the Gray'b inn Coffee House, Hol born, at 12. At the Court of Commissioners. W. Askey, Woburn-buildings, Tavistoek-square, at 10 Sir W. Roberts, Bart., Courtland's Devon, at 11. W. W. Bird, Coventry, at 1 I. Itensley, Throgmorton-street, at 12. W. Cape], Mark-lane, at 12. J. Maiillow, Portland-town, at 1. A. Applegath, Stamford-greet, Lambeth, at 12. W. Ilibbert, Mount-street Grosvenor-square, at 12. W, Archer, Hertford, at 11. COUNTRY DIARY, WEnritsnav, Jots 7. C. J. Spencer, Carlisle, at the Blue Religion, Carlisle, at 11. T. Sutcliffe, Laugfielit. Halifax, York, at the Roebuck, Roch dale, at 11. V. Chase, jun., Gosport, at Mr. Callaway's oflice, Portsmouth, at 12. J. Harrison, Portsmouth, at Mr. Callaway's office, Portsmouth, at 2. J. Ridgway, Itineelealiehl, at the Macclesfield Arms, Nfaec at 10. - W. Coward, Southampton, at Mr. Bryant's office, Southampton, at lit. D. Howard, Leeds, at the Court-house, Leeds, at 11. lt• Kay, Bury, Lancaster, at Mr. Sedduu's office, Manchester, at 10. W. Warder, lull., North Witham, Norfolk, at the White Swan, Norwich, at IS. W w .. 4l:7 ll zi e il y i n , o ui:t l; aA, t -1 6 1 1 : 4 1 0 :7 ..d i : s ii :a z if o o u rd eb , a , a t t tl t ie he ß (ltt oya ce l n Hotel, o.i, l3 , , •J." ,i„„ "u"' Newcwfil e - upon-Tyne, at the Turf Hotel, Newcastle upon-Tyne, at (N;:t:riwP°i:hl7, Wataitlaheilis::;:-N(oi"rwrit, W s: l44 ' 2ll' at 12. H. Jackson, J. Alderton, LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Jutete 3 • THE KING v. SMITU. CAMPIIELT. moved- for a rule to show cause why the ycnne in this case should- not be removed out of the county of Stafford to Gloucester, or some other county. This was an indictment against two brothers and a sister for cruel creatment towards an other brother. The grounds of the present application were, that the prosecution was instituted by the Magistrates, to whom the Under-Sheriff of the county was Solicitor; and that the neigh bourhood was inundated with publications, both from the press and by handbills, misrepresenting the facts of the case, and cal culated to excite a prejudice against the defendants, so that it was impossible to have a faiy trial in Stafford. ---Ride granted. TUE KING t./. GARRISON. This was an information on a Quo warranto against the de fendant, for exercising the office of Mayor in the borough of Chester without being duly elected. It appeared that the corpo ration of Chester consists of 24 Aldermen and g Sheriffs, and Burgesses, &c. and that by a charter of Henry VII. which is held to be the governing charter of that borough, it was necessary that a Sheriff should preside, and that a majority of the Aldermen should concur in the election of a Mayor, yet there were only,seven Aldermen in the -Hell at the election of the defendant. On be half of the defendant it 1.-as contended, that the charter of Henry the 'Seventh had not been accepted by the borough of Chea ter, as it hid a charter given by Henry the Second, which was time beyond memory, and that the customs of the borough were the only rules for its guidance. The case was tried at the last Assizes, and these points submit ted to the Jury, who found that the Corporation did not exist from time immemorial; and gave a verdict for the King. A rule to show cause' why the verdict should not be set aside having been obtained this term, and the case baying been argued by Mr. Ca - amoral. and Mr. TAUNTON, the Court were of opi nion that the verdict was contrary to the evidence, and accordingly set it' aside. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, JUNE 3, TIM KING V. MO. The ArroittimOzweltat. moved the Court to have a verdict entered for the Crown on the issue finual by the Jury against the defendant in this case, and judgment followed up accordingly ; or, if the Court thought there were not sufficient grounds for this, be would move for a new trial on the issue, finding that Mr. Laing had authority from the Comurission4a to direct such alterations in the works as he thought over. He contended that if the Treasury had in the express words given such power to Mr. Laing, it would not justify Mr. Peto in de viating from the contract. Mr SCARLIM, on behalf of the defendant, contended that a verdict had been for his client on all the material issues, and that the issue finind for the Crown, namely, that there was a stratum of gravel, was not Sufficient to sustain the application of the Attorney General. After a few words from the ATTORNILY4; EMMA L and Mr. Baron HULLOCK, showing the irregularity of the application, Mr. Scarlett was allowed to take his rule in the alternative—to'show cause either why a verdict should not be entered for the defen dant: on all the issues, non °Wan& veredieto, or (in case the Court was of opinion that the ism, for the Crown was material) why a new trial should not be granted. 'flue ATTORNEY-OP:I4EIUL took his rule, which was also in the alternative, to show cause, why either judgment should not be entered up for the Crown on the issue found ; or why a new trial should not be granted on the issue, finding that Mr. Laing . WAS authorised by thr commissioners to give directions respecting the piling, &c. ARCHES' COURT, Jura 3. LADY AMIENS AGAINST LORD AMIENS. This case caws before the Court on a question as to admissi bility of the libel in a suit tin. divorce, on the ground of adultery, instituted by Viscountess Amiens against Viscount Amiens. The parties were married on the 2d of August, 1804, in Scotland, and cohabited until the year 1610, when upon Lady Amiens' tempo rary absence from the place of their joint residence, his Lordship eloped with a Mrs. Newcomen, with whom he continued to co habit up to the period when this suit was commenced, is the Foment year. Dr. itatrusn and Dr. DonsoN, on behalf of Lord Amin% ob jected to the admission of the 'libel, on account of the delay of six teen years which bad occurred in iusitutiog the present suit, not withstanding the notoriety of the adulterous intercourse. They objected likewise to the certificate of the marriage which ha .been produced, under the hand of Dr. Muster), of the Scats church, who performed the ceremony in a private Louse ; inch evidence never having been received in this Court as a proof of a marriage legally contracted. Lusnincrow, on the other hand, contended - that the de lay was sufficiently accounted for when the circumstances of Lady Amiens were considered. Her Ladyship had no funds at her command; she was dependent for support upon her own father, until her father-in-law became Earl of Aldborough; and since the year 181$ Lord Amiens had been in confinement for debt. It was, moreover, acquiescence, not mere delay on the suitor's part, which barred relief. With respect to the certificate of marriage, he would amend the allegations, so as to show that the register from whence it had been taken was a publicrecord. The comx inquired if there had ever been a case in which delay alone had operated as a bar to a suit of this nature; and finding that none existed, directed the libel to •be admitted, but the articles roveting the eyertificate and register to be reformed. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET.—On Saturday evening, in consequence of a previous arrangement between the purties, Mr, William Collins, the person charged with obtaining 1,7001. from Colonel Canine, by false and fraudulent pretences, was brought up for a second exa mination. The Christian name of Colonel Cumac is Jahn, awl not William, as stated by mistake in our lust report, and he was formerly in the Life Guards, The Name legal advisers attended on both sides as before. The deposition of Mr. Well, Colonel Camac's solicitor, was read over, and he made a few verbal corrections in it. lle added, that the defendant engaged to bring the bond spoken of from Mahnesbury in two days after receiving the 1,7001. Ha also stated that it was a " pile of (and not five, as stated before) bank notes," which be saw at the Bank of England, on the top note of which was the defendant's signature. Mr. C. Phillips—Pray, sir, is your name Wall or Wells ? Witness-_My name, Sir, is Well. Mr. Phillips—And you are au attorney. Pray, bow long have you been vo 7—Witness—Several years. tight or nine years. Mr. Phillips—What is the firm hi which you are a partner? Witness—Capel, Rowley, and Well. Mr. Phillips—Had you any knowledge of the defendant before the interview which took place between you and Colonel Cinume and him in April ? Witness--None whatever. Ido not know that I ever saw his person before. Mr. Phillips—And bow long was it after the first interview Lot you gave him the 1,7001. ?—Witness—About six weeks. Phillips -Aral so you, an attorney of eight or nine years' practice, pnrted with 1,7001. to a man of whom you had no other knowledge than a six weeloe acquaintance? Were you introduced to any of his supposed friends at Malmesbury? Witness—l was not., Mr. Phillips—Did you make any inquiry into the truth of his story ?—Witnessi—No. Mr. Phillips—You did not see any of the burgesses ?—No. Mr. Phillips—You did not go down to Mitlinesbury ?—No. Mr. Phillips-.. Nair, .Sir, what was liw object, immediate or ultimate, of your paying that sum of money to my client ? Witness—lt is already stated in my deposition. Mr. Phillips.—Was not the object to procure the return of a inember to Parliament ?--.Wittiess.—No. Mr. Philllps.—Upon your oath, what was the'object? Wituess.--I object to answer that question. . Mr. ask you again, was it not to procure the return of a member to Parliament? Witneas—The Object is already stated in my deposition. Mr. Phillips.—Then why did you say so directly "No," wh en I asked you just now? I again ask you, was not th e o bj ect of paying the 1 17001. to th e d e fendant to procure a seat in Parlia, nient ?—Witness.—l object to answer. Mr. Phillip s .— Sit, I a ppeal to you in the face of the public to answer me the question. Mr. Adolphus.--Don't appeal in the face of the public. The public have n u lli ng to do with t h e mu t ter . T hese remarks are opuull!filiicneteyleu,kdant°d though I iye way everytliugh feud their respect for th e gentlemen who report th ese proceedings, I say i t i s not fa i r. w ro a certain Ito the A long altercation ensued between the counsel, but produced no result. After some further remarks, Mr. Dyer, a clerk in the Dank of England , was 'called, and produced SO of the 34, 301. notes, paid into the Bank 011 the 1 I tli of May, one of which bore the signa ture of the defendant. Mr. Phillips asked Mr. Adolphus if he did not mean to call Colorie,loQamie. Mr. Adolpin-is .mid not at present. A elerlt. at DrummOnd's should have bean present to prove, that the notes produced by Mr. Dyer were the Same which had been paid at that house for Col. Camac's cheek, and as he was not in attendance, he (Mr. Adol phus) should proceed no further. Ife must have the notes identi fied before he called Colonel Comic. ' Mr. •Phillips said it was very extraordinary, and a great pity, that the whole truth could not be got at once. Mr. Adolphus said it was not necessary. It might be al) very well for the gratification of public curiosity, but whatever ulti mate view, if any, the parties might have had in paying the 1,100/., it could be of very little consequence to the public to know. The case was a simple isolated one, of obtaining money under' false pretences, and all that was necessary was to prove that it bad been so obtained. Mr. Phillips said the parties were all liable to an indictment. The prosecutor was as bad as the prisoner. Mr. Adolphus said, that this remark was also improper. It was too much the practice now-a-days to roll back the crimp of the accused upon his prosecutor, and it was endeavoured to place every thief in a better situation than his accuser. Mr. Phillips said Mr, Adolphus had no right to apply such a term to Mr. Collins. Mr. Adolphus said he did not tend to apply it personally. His remark was!' general one. Mr. Phillips repeated his opinion that all the parties were liable to be indicted for a conspiracy. " I don't mean to say," added the learned Counsel, "that, as times go, there is any great moral culpability iu the matter, but that there is legal guilt no one can doubt. Mr. Adolphus-4 should like to see an indictment of ' your drawing up on the case. Mr;Well being asked when he thought the witnesses from Malmesbury could be in attendance, said he had little doubt that they would arrive early in the next week, and with the con sent of all parties the further hearing was adjourned until they should arrive. Mr. Collins was again conveyed to the watch house. ADDRESS of the BRITISH CATnOLICS. TO OUR PROTESTANT FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN. FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN--We present to you a Declaration drawn up and signed by those Ecclesiastics who, in this country, are the expounders of our Faith. We beg earnestly to call your attention to this document, which distinctly repudiates the oh noxiouslenets imputed to us. The Irish Bishops have given a Declaration of Catholic principles similar in effect to this We ask you, can you believe that we are joined in a perfidious league to deceive you? Are those amongst us,. who are linked with you by social habits and friendly intercourse, those in whom you confidently trust in matters of high importance and from whom you meet, in return, with integrity and fair dealing, to be considered honest . on every other occasion, and capable of deep designing fraud and duplicity on this? To our sense of the sacred oblintions of an oath, we daily sacrifice every object of ordinary ambition ; is it in human nature, that we can become perjured men in this solitary instance? We are accused of idolatry; we disclaim the imputation, of not keep ing faith with heretics ; we disclaim the imputation, of dividing the allegiance which is due to the King; we disdains the impu tation, of acknowledging in the Pope a deposing power; wo claim the imputation, of believing that a Priest can absolve from sin at his own mere will and pleasure ; we disclaim the imputa tion—and we disclaim each, and all, these opinions, moat so lemnly and most unequivocally. Our religion is called a persecuting religion. - We reply, that the Catholic religion, and the policy of Catholic State*, are un fairly confounded; and if the Ministers of. the Catholic religion have, at any time, co-operated with the Civil Government in measures of persecution, they forgot the divine 'precepts of. their Founder, in attempting to prevent the introduction of sects by violence and injustice, and we condemn the deed; are we to sutler for their misconduct ?' In the unholy race of persecution which ,has been run by various denominutions of Christians at other times, this, or any other country, if members of the religion we profess were not exempt from blame, we deeply deplore their blind infatuation—why then are we to be punished for excesses in which we bore no part, which we us cordially condemn as you do, and for which your ancestors are not less liable to reproach than ours? If the professors of the Catholic faith were even peculiarly distinguished, in times long past, for their mistaken zeal (Which we do. not concede), the more deeply should we lament their errors; but let not the liberal ProteStant, and the enlightened Catholic of the present day, allow themselves to be hurried by prejUdiced or interested men into hatred of each other, and thus perpetuate distention, and . religious bigotry, in the name of th e G o d o f Cha rity and Peace. We challenge calm enquiry into the practice of the present Go vernments of Christendom, and we believe it will be found, on candid examination, that the principles of Religions Liberty are fully us well practised in Catholic as in Protestant States, We entreat you deeply to consider tho effects of the example of the Legislation of this country, in the various nations of' the world. Above all, weigh well its consequences in the rising States of South America. We beg of you to keep constantly in view,'what power of argument the continuance of these laws of exclusion affords to every enemy of liberty, whether civil or religious, throughout the world. We request you to put this question to your own minds. Is there another country in the world where, for conscience auks, several of the most ancient nobles of the land, are deprived of their hereditary privileges; where hundreds of gentlemen, possessors of ancient and large landed estates, are deprived of honours and rights, the usual attendants on birth and property; where the industry of the merchant and the talent of the lawyer are checked in the midst of their respective careers ; where six or seven mil lions of the people are deprived of the benefit of equal chances under equal laws. And as a proof of the direful, but natural effects of such a system of law, we implore you to look at Ireland, that island of genius and of fertility. Behold her in all her naked ness and all her misery. Our Religion is raid to be peculiarly proselyting. If to pro selyte be to convince by the use of fair argument, then is ours a proselyting religion. As Englishmen, we claim the right of free, disclissimi, and we should be ashamml to call ourselves your fellow-subjects could we forego this valuable privilege. But if to proselyte, be to substitute force for argument, and to give premiums for apostacy and hypocrisy, such proselytism' is a disgrace to any form of Christianity, and we solemnly ahjse it. "We entreat you to endeavour to divest your mind; of precon ceived impressions to our disadvantage, and calmly to examine the situation in which we stand. In a country boasting peculiar li berality, we suffer severe privations because we differ from you in religious belief. The remaining penalties, neither few nor trivial, of a Penal Code of unparalleled severity, still press upon us. A Catholic Peer cannot sit and vote in the House of Peers, and is thus deprived of his most valuable birthright ; a Catholic Commoner cannot sit and vote in the House of Commons; a Catholic Freeholder may be prevented from voting at Elections for members ; he cannot sit in the Privy Council, or be a Minister of the Crown; he cannot be a Judge, or hold any Crown Office in any of the Spiritual, Equity, or common Law Courts; he . may practice at the Bar, but he cannot become a King's Counsel; he cannot bold any office in any of the Corporations; he cannot .graduate at either of the Universities, much less enjoy any of the numerous beneficial offices connected with them, although both of those seats of learning were founded by Catholics ; he cannot marry either a Protestant, or a Catholic, lintels the ceremony be per formed by a Protestant Clergyman ; he cannot settle real or personal property, for the use of his church, or of Catholic schools, or for any other purposes of the Catholic religion ; he cannot vote at Vestries, or present a living in the church, though both of those rights seem to appertain to the enjoyment of property, and may actually be exercised by infidels. Such are our principal grievance*; but, more than all, we complain o f th e ga lli ng b ran d o f disgrace, which is th e eon sequence o f these disqualifications, which is more int o l era bl e , to honourabl e m i n d s , that, the severest, pressure of penal i n fli ct i on , and necessarily implies guilt on our part, or injustice upon yours. to bear about urea painful feeling of inferiority, and of u n d eserved reproach. It ie to us no matter of surprise, that tales %Tido, Prom early youth, to the last stage of existence, we are d omed malevolence invented in troubled times, which party zeal propa gated, and which, in • many instances, were sanctioned by the forms, though not by the reality, of justice, should be perpetu ated even to this hour, and that a general mass of prejudice should have been created, requiring centuries to remove. The infant is taught, with his first acmnts, to impugn our faith ; his education matures his early impressions, and he rema i ns through life hrea creature and incapable of sanct i oning injustice or deceit, are thus drawn in to become our opponents. W e b eseec h all such attentively to investigate, bef ore they finally condemn. We invite all to the cool consideration o f our principles, because l t ule eat f u ee r l e ing f , s prejudice' Persons possessed of the most ) no we know that they will bear time test of the closest inquiry.. If e d , es t p ra i t s l e e ; in if o su tt e r i ( l ieg ther ra- e there be e a P n e d n'Y en n6 cot w ir lo ajgebpairteejrutillircei nscwipllieiefhurthpelacy be, they are not more our enemies than yours; and be it our mu tual task to unveil them, that religion, the child of heaven, may not be disfigured by human passions, nor infidelity find an ally in our want of charity to each other. Bearing equally with you, our Ustituttliowo:uarnthdbeirts g o l f or t y h , e w c e o c u la n i t m ry' to a b n e d W u krii ph t o te l' d lin t g o efegluloawliy-suithsjeine a full participation in all the rights of British subjects. Every principle or practice hostile, in the remotest degree, to those instits tions, we most explicitly disclaim,. Year after year we repeat the humiliating task of disavowal, still we suffer the penalties of guilt. We ask you is this to endure for ever? Arc we always to remain the victims of misplaced suspicion ? The doors of the Constitution are shut against us, as long as we continue true to the dictates of our consciences; but if we abandon the faith of our fathers, resign every honourable feeling, and become perjured men and apostates, then are all our disqualifications removed, the sanctuary of the British Cos stitution is thrown open to us, we become Senators, Priv) , Council lore, nay, guardians of the morals of the people, and dispensers of public justice. God forbid we should purchase such distinctions, however valuable, at the price of dishonour. In the hour of danger, when our country needs it, we mingle our blood with yours. W desire no ascendancy, religious or political. U our country MN, we ask to fall with her-.—if she prospers, we claim to share her prosperity. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS MIMI THE. 'WEIL Pot.e. 'Wheat (Barley' I I .- 1 — ,o `i_@. 54 (;(, al 66 53 6.2, 5.2 56, .5() 63 !..1 1;0 65 68 54 56 54 60 GO 64 i.~ i. Q 0 30 30 33 34 87 33 35 34 17 itf+ ;4-1 ati .18 - -- 34 32 34 132 40 - I 178 40 138 40 I 3) 41 is 41 It; 50 14 5 1 ; - 0 4-4 laki ;--;9 i 4 AH "'". .6 40 14 - 3 hT) ,; 41 44 44 .... -- 1:t Ab !as 40 6 -- 7 --- s 9 !- - I- -- 1.-- - I- -- - 1~. N I- -- B -' I,- ..... 10 9 i t ' 10 Per Quarter. Alnwick Andover Arundel As hborne Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Blandford Bridgewater • Bridport Bristol Bury St. Edmund's Cambridge Canterbury Cal lisle Chard Chelmsford Chesterfield .. Colchester Daventry Derby Devises Doncaster Dorcisesf,r Exeter Eye Gloucester Guildford Henley Hrxl liorticastle . Elull Hauges ford litintingdon Ipswich Leeds Lewes Lricest et Lincoln Loughborough Lout Is . Lynn.. Maidstone .. Market Ilarbos ough Morpet Is Newbury Newcast Ic Newport (Isle of Wight) Nor; human's Nottinglians Norwich Plymouth. Heading hinusey Salisbury Sandwich Sheffield Shepton Mallet Sherburne Stamford Sunderland Swansea Taunton Truro Uppingliam Uxbridge Wakefield Wall trige Warminster Winchester Wisbuch Yarmouth Yeovil Yin k NI Bushel. Birmingham Bodin in Buckingham Cheltenham Covent ry Hereford ... Newcost le (Staff.) ...... Not t liallett on Oxfot Penrith Penzance SlirewOntry Stafford Vitarwick Worcester Pe r 'toll. Ba manic:tit le Darlington Durham Stanhope Stockton . W'olsingl►ain - 10 7 -• 6 14 17 1 14 lb, 13 15, 13 14 1 13 14 171 6 7 6 8 7 -1 1.-- ..... I. 01' f ..... --i LIVF.ItI'UOI. CMOS FACIIANGE. During the week we have had a large arrival of Oatg,.nea r . l .y. the whole of which is Irish ; of Wh ea t an d ot h er articles import is extremely trivial. There was a fair attendance . 1 , ) ,! town and country dealers at to.d a y ' s mar k et , b u t they le!'.7 not eager buyers. Good Wheat fully s u pp or t e d its price; Per there being an ovcrphus of Oats, they were 4th. to Id. t than on this day week; so littl e was d one i n ot h er ar ticles, 1 7 4 we quote them without alter at i on . The bills new c ml P iet a will alloW the Wheat, S t e. now in b ond f o r co n sump tion in day or two, when its real value will be aacertaineti. - - OLD. NOV 4 d, I. d; a a a. d. 4 . 4 " 00a 0 0 8 g a y 00a 0 0 ° 4) a • 0 ° '7 0a 8 9 ° u 9 0 0 8 0 3 a a 0 0 8 0 70 0 ° 0 2 8 1 11 1 1 ;1 00 a 0 A , r 00A 0 0 4 8is 0 1 00a 0 0 0 O 404 a ii .1 1 4 I , , t 0 00 O g 11 : 0 00 : 8 : : I : f II 0 o 0 0 a 0 0 4 00400 o ? s s 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 , S , l ig 2 7 I :I Ooa 0 0 a 46 0 O 41 ' °: 49 0 0 a 0 —i..... 0 0a 0 0 i ll 1„ SI .. b o on •0 0 0 ban e ( . net, a 014 I. r1it4i1dnew)..................)...t......), 9 29„. 755 :. 0,1 044 . L o n 312 3063.. . 0,1 ,01 . per ., Mint It INlpturr or Gem): for the Week. ending Ma y gtl .,„, k' I /* MI BA LEV. it I' c l i r e, tushel 70114 t. Bushel tiOlbs. Bus wr . FLOOIt. 1 0 hel 45Ibs. For. Barrels. i 49 5,88 StO ° Pack* of Oatmeal 'W AS or 240 ha., 1893. __,.....2....e ........,...........—__ Whont, English, per Canada Canatut (tree) Foreign Irish (re( Ditto (white Barley, English, per Imperial Foreign (tree) ,*r chats.lrish (grindin g Scotch, Oats, Potato clrish), per Foreign (in Scotch & Welch Potato, for Awed Malt, Pine, Imperial Ditto, middling, ditto Beans, per quarter, ditt0,,„,,;„„,:-- Superfine Flour, per 2801bs. Oatmeal, per 2.44ft5. American }l.-- - &uropean Sour (out of BIRTHS. ..„ oesr On Sunday se'nnight, at the Rectory House, Local; thr ee Grout Grimsby, the Lady of the Rev. Thos. Dixon, 1)1 g o flue boys, who, wit h t h e mo th er, we are happy or to ' doing well. . 'er At Gleolcimly, on; the 26th u l t ., t h e l a d y o f Sir Al S ean d Leith, K.C.B. of a son. „ Of 04 On the let i ns t., at D enton H all, Lincolnshire, the 1— A 4, Rev. T. 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